Pebble meaning

pĕb'əl
Pebble is defined as to cover with or give the appearance of tiny smooth rocks.

An example of pebble is to stamp the surface of a fabric or leather for texture.

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The definition of a pebble is a small, smooth stone.

An example of a pebble is a tiny rock that can skip across a lake.

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A small stone, especially one worn smooth by erosion.
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A rock fragment between 4 and 64 millimeters (0.16 and 2.51 inches) in diameter, especially one that has been naturally rounded.
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An irregularly rough, grainy surface, as on leather or paper.
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Clear colorless quartz; rock crystal.
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A lens made of such quartz.
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To pave with pebbles.
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To impart an irregularly rough, grainy surface to (leather or paper).
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To pelt with pebbles.
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Clear, transparent quartz or a lens made from it.
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A surface grain of pebbly appearance, artificially produced on leather (pebble leather), paper, etc.
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Such a stone, smaller than a cobblestone, with a maximum diameter of 64 mm (c. 2.5 in)
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To cover with pebbles or objects that look like pebbles.
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To stamp (leather, etc.) so as to produce a pebbly appearance.
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A rock fragment larger than a granule and smaller than a cobble. Pebbles have a diameter between 4 and 64 mm (0.16 and 2.56 inches) and are often rounded.
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A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.
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(geology) A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
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(curling) A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.
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Transparent and colourless rock crystal.

Brazilian pebble.

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To pave with pebbles.
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(curling) To deposit water droplets on the ice. e.g. to pebble the ice between games.
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A small stone worn smooth and round, as by the action of water.
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Origin of pebble

Middle English pobble, pibel, pebul from Old English papol- (as in papolstān pebblestone)

Sentence Examples

  • and more, without finding a pebble, however small.

  • The principal minerals are rock phosphate and (recently more important) land and river pebble phosphate, found in scattered deposits in a belt on the " west coast " about 30 m.

  • The land pebble is worked in central South Florida; the hard rock chiefly between Albion and Bay City.

  • The most plausible etymology connects the name with the Assyrian guru, either in the sense of "turn" of office at the beginning of the New Year or in that of "pebble" used for votes or lots.

  • His mother, a Tlingit woman, whose sons had all been slain, met a friendly dolphin, which advised her to swallow a pebble and a little sea-water.

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